From the license page, it does not look like you are allowed to use your copy at work (would be great if this were possible ;) ):
"Personal licenses are not available to companies in any way or form. Transfer of personal licenses to any third party and/or reimbursement for personal license purchase by a company are prohibited by the Personal License Agreement"
I've glanced through the license. You are allowed to install it on as many machines as you need as long as only you use it. I can't see any limitations on what work you can do or who for.
My conclusion is that as long as you have paid for it you can use it at work but cannot reclaim expenses for it or transfer it in any way.
How is that a valid condition (legally)? If you bought a programming book on your Kindle, Amazon would have no legal ground to prohibit your company from reimbursing you.
There's no legal grounds for prohibiting reimbursing you, but there's lots of grounds for revoking your license if you violate the terms of the license.
It's actually a valid scenario. Suppose you want to evaluate IDEA for your company but need more than 30 days. You could buy the personal edition and use it. After your evaluation is done, the company reimburses you. If you liked it, presumably your company bought a site license at the same time which you can use instead. If you didn't just stop using it.
I understand that it would circumvent their price discrimination strategy but that doesn't mean they can put whatever they want in there. I don't begrudge them extracting as much value out of the market as they can but I just don't understand the basis for revoking a license in this case. As long as the other terms and conditions are met, and if the license were revoked, would their be legal recourse for the license holder (I know this is getting ridiculous but I'm wondering)? I would think it would be found a valid use of the license, but IANAL.
BTW, I have no interest in doing this; I'm just curious.
Well the terms are that you are licensing the software and if you breach the terms I would assume that the license is invalidated. However in reality they will never know although you know you are infringing their copyright.
I generally hate non open source software licenses but this area of the terms doesn't seem overly unreasonable to me as they are offering a discount from the normal price for individuals but without extending it to the (usually) less price sensitive companies.
I actually already have it for personal use (which I bought for my personal use in side projects)
I was really hoping to get resharper for my coworkers. Every time I go to a computer without it, I realize all the best things I love in Visual Studio turn out to be features from Resharper :D
Edit: Oh apparently it's for personal editions only.